Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.